READER HUGH AKSTON OFFERS SOME EXCELLENT ADVICE TO PRESIDENT OBAMA:

I think its time for President Obama to pull a “Costanza”. Remember the Seinfeld episode when George realized that every decision he ever made had been wrong? Then he decided to do the opposite of what he thought he should do. He ended up with an awesome job with the Yankees, dating a great girl, and moving out of his parents’ house. That’s kinda where I think President Obama is today. He seriously needs to re-think his position on almost every major issue. Perhaps its time to do the opposite of what Rahm thinks…. No new stimulus package, re-new the Bush tax cuts, leave a few more combat soldiers in Iraq, throw a bone to Israel, leave Arizona alone, etc., etc.

It just might work. And we’ve already established that in the future, everyone will be George Costanza eventually. So why not now, Barack?

POLITICO: Barbara Boxer aide charged with possession of pot. “A senior aide for Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) was arrested Tuesday for attempting to bring marijuana into the Hart Senate Office Building, according to U.S. Capitol Police reports.”

UPDATE: A reader comments: “If he were a local black kid he’d be in prison by now.”

STUART SCHNEIDERMAN: “In the end the American people bought an illusion, an illusion of competence and eptitude. They were wrong, and thus, they are getting screwed.”

DEMOCRATIC MODERATES organizing around Hillary Clinton?

BRYAN PRESTON: Tammy Duckworth Dishes Misinformation to Disabled Vet.

ASTEROID NEAR-MISSES are surprisingly common.

POLLING AND DEMOCRATIC PANIC?

YOU’RE WELCOME! Reader Eric Beeby writes:

Thanks to you I nailed the Burn’s Civil War and the Python complete set – plus jumped on the Jeeves and Wooster Amazon promoted with the Python set. It is going to be a fun Christmas.

Thanks again for those alerts!

ps – And thanks too for convincing me to go Amazon Prime a couple years ago – free 2 day shipping on all the above!

Yeah, the Prime rocks. And my brother gave me the Python set for Christmas a few years back. It was much appreciated!

IMMIGRATION CRACKDOWN HITS KITCHEN OF FRENCH RESTAURANT. They told me if I voted for John McCain, the immigration crackdown would . . . oh, hell, no they didn’t. Nobody thought that.

ANN ALTHOUSE: “What is stupider than being stupid while calling other people stupid? You’d think Obama fans would at least learn from Obama’s mistakes.”

WHAT AMERICANS HAVE BEEN CRYING OUT FOR: U.S. names Asian carp czar.

UPDATE: Reader Michael Dobric emails: “Knowing the federal government, I fully expect that Asian Carp will not only fully invade the Great Lakes, but also that an Asian Carp will be voted in as Mayor of Chicago.”

KANSAS WATCHDOG: 126,000 voters with unknown or invalid mailing addresses in Kansas.

THE MILWAUKEE PARADOX: Claiming to Unite Us, Obama—Once Again—Only Divides. I dunno. More and more people are uniting in opposition. . . .

DAVE PRICE: Seriously, are there any benighted semi-despots out there Tom Friedman doesn’t have a bromantic poli-crush on?

SEEKING ALPHA: Visualizing the U.S. Higher Education Bubble.

HEH: “Man, if only we had a Politburo that could assign really effective commissars to trouble spots around the country, everything would be so much better!”

Or maybe just the newly-invented council-manager system of government!

FORGET THE ECONOMY: Let’s Talk About Me!

DAVE FOULK ON FACEBOOK: “Fifty member church in Florida gets international attention when it burns somebody else’s holy book. Five thousand member churches hold free clinics to everyone, food pantries, home fix-ups for free…. and never get a mention even in local news. It’s not so much that bad news travels fast, but good news rarely gets a ride.”

GOODBYE, ALPHA MALE. Hello, geek.

Related: Study: Fat men are better in bed. Hey, Ace has been telling us that for years.

SET ON “STUN:” Scientists examine possibility of a phonon laser, or ‘phaser.’

ONE-DAY-ONLY SALE: The complete Monty Python’s Flying Circus for $34.99.

PJTV: Brandi Milloy On The Border: Beyond Illegal: Smugglers, Cartels & Islamic Infiltrators Crossing Our Southern Border. (Bumped).

THEY TOLD ME IF I VOTED FOR JOHN MCCAIN, colleges would shut down speech criticizing the President. And they were right! “School officials at Palm Beach State College kicked members of the Young America’s Foundation off campus after they saw anti-Obama literature at their table.” Video at the link.

UPDATE: More on the story from J.P. Freire.

ILLUSTRATED: Barack Obama’s “lean government.”

HOW TO GET BETTER BATTERY LIFE FROM GADGETS.